April 19, 2023
Latest Grant Awards to SOM Faculty
New grants awarded to School of Medicine faculty with project start dates from April 1 - 15 and a total award amount greater than $100,000 are outlined.
April 19, 2023
New grants awarded to School of Medicine faculty with project start dates from April 1 - 15 and a total award amount greater than $100,000 are outlined.
April 13, 2023
James Howard, MD, professor of neurology at the UNC School of Medicine, was the principal investigator of the RAISE clinical trial of zilucoplan, one of two drugs under regulatory review to treat myasthenia gravis.
April 10, 2023
UNC School of Medicine’s Alex K. Gertner, MD, PhD, and Beat D. Steiner, MD, MPH, led a study on a new “enhanced primary care” model which resulted in lower blood pressure and hemoglobin A1c and increased screening for people with severe mental illness.
April 7, 2023
Dominique Higgins, MD, PhD, led research into how a specialized diet can induce a new type of programmed cell death to help kill brain tumor cells.
April 6, 2023
The lab of Juan Song, PhD, and colleagues at the UNC School of Medicine, demonstrated the therapeutic potential of new neurons generated in adulthood for modulating the pathology and functional deficits associated with Alzheimer’s disease using rodent models.
April 3, 2023
Michael Kappelman, MD, MPH, was the lead PI on the clinical trial, which followed nearly 300 children with Crohn’s to evaluate how their conditions changed in response to anti-TNF biologic treatments alone or in combination with a second immune suppressive medication.
April 3, 2023
Adam Rosenthal, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, shows that genetically identical cells within a bacterial community have different functions, with some members behaving more docile and others producing the very toxins that make us feel ill.
March 30, 2023
Kimberly Shoenbill, MD, PhD, has been named the new director of the UNC Clinical Informatics Fellowship.
March 28, 2023
Andrea Azcarate-Peril, PhD, discusses her research into the bacterial communities that live inside our guts and offers tips on how you can maintain a healthy microbiome.
March 28, 2023
NC TraCS Institute is seeking proposals that focus on understanding a scientific or operational principle underlying a step of the translational research process, with the goal of developing generalizable principles to accelerate translational research.
March 24, 2023
Keriayn Smith, PhD, receives $665,786 over the course of four years to research non-coding RNA in yeast, mammalian cells, and more.
March 22, 2023
Applications are now open until April 5 for the 2023 - 2024 Clinical Trialist Training Program, which provides 10% salary support for UNC School of Medicine faculty to obtain training on how to be a site investigator for sponsor-initiated multicenter clinical trials.